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Martha (given name)

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Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα, from Aramaic מרתא (martā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master").

Variants in different languages:

  • Maata (Maori)
  • Марфа (Marfa) (Russian), formerly spelled "Марѳа" from the Greek version of the name, that the Russians assimilate in F
  • Márta (Hungarian)
  • Marta (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish)
  • Марта (Marta) (Ukrainian)
  • Marthe (French, German)
  • Martta (Finnish)
  • Mártuska (Hungarian)
  • Moireach (Scottish Gaelic)
  • Morta (Lithuanian)
  • A traditional English language nickname was Patty.

    References

    Martha (given name) Wikipedia